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· 9/20/2001

Ex Parte Bogia

Citations

  • 56 S.W.3d 835
  • 2001 WL 995425

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that an “accused’s ability or inability to make bond is relevant, but not controlling”
  • holding bail of $360,000 on charge of second degree felony theft was excessive and setting bail at $10,000
  • stating, “Appellant’s indigency is a circumstance to be considered, but it is not a controlling circumstance nor the sole criterion in determining the amount of bail.”
  • “Lengthy pretrial detention should not be a substitute for a trial, and the purpose of our constitutional and statutory law on bail is to guarantee that it is not.”
  • “[An] accused’s ability 13 or inability to make bond is relevant, but not controlling.”
  • “If a $360,000 bail can be justified here, it will not be because of any formula. On the contrary, it 14 would have to be justified by extraordinary facts in this particular case.”

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Judges: Cohen, Hedges, Smith

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